#Gear of war 3 characters series

In January 2008 I got a call from a publisher I'd done some work for who told me they needed a book to be written urgently. How did you get from there to actually writing novels for the games? So the story is, you first fell for Gears of War when you saw the TV advert for the original game which used the Gary Jules version of Mad World as its soundtrack. So what can a writer bring to a major games series, and how should a story be told through the medium of interactive entertainment? Here's what Karen had to sayвЂ¦

#Gear of war 3 characters series

Her experience of writing about the armed forces has clearly come in useful for her work in the games industry: alongside the Gears novels, she's also working on a series for Halo.

Previously responsible for a series of Star Wars novelisations, Traviss started out as a journalist, working as a defence correspondent for both print and TV.

Yet, that's exactly what happened when Karen Traviss, the author of several Gears of War books, was invited to pen the storyline for Gears 3. It's rare these days for a major video game not to have a tie-in novel series вЂ“ but it's even rarer for the writer of those novels to be drafted in to the development team.